I have a series of sounds that I would like all sprites to access. For now, I am attaching the sounds to the Stage. I then ask each sprite to tell the Stage to play a sound when needed.
Is there a more efficient or elegant way to accomplish this?
you could also put all the sounds into a global list...
(and then remove them from the "jukeboxes" they're in to reduce memory footprint)
@jens My inclination was to drag the sounds directly into the list from the desktop. However, the sounds dragged into Snap! attached themselves to the sprite. At that point I set the global variable "List of Sounds" to List [Samples of Sound 1] [Samples of Sound 2], etc.
Is this the best way to import the sounds into a list, or can sound files be dragged directly into items in a list?
set (List of Sounds v) to (my (sounds v) :: sensing)
this publishes a sprite's "jukebox" to all. I like it, because it doesn't duplicate any data and is also a dynamic reference. @glenbull if you want to make a copy of the sounds you don't need to extract the samples, you could just make a (shallow) copy of my sounds using map or - in this case even - id of (my sounds.
@sir_kitten2 @jens Excellent! We hope to have a demo of the activity later in the week. Thanks for the assist.
@jens I imported a list of 47 sounds into Snap! and set a variable, List of Sounds, to MySounds. I then created a loop to play the sounds. However, the loop only played the first 29 sounds before the audio stopped. Is there a buffer that is filled or some other issue that prevents the entire list of sounds from being played? Here's a link to the Snap! program (named "Sound Test"):
not your fault, Glen, there's a bug with sounds (unrelated to the global list design), let me investigate.....
hmm... this appears to be Chrome bug, though, there's a known "memory leak" issue with sounds. Your project works fine for me on Firefox, and even somewhat okayish in Safari. Same procedure as every year: Come summer Google breaks some crucial part of Chrome 
Lets hope they'll fix it soon. Sorry!
What is the
Although I did hear something about sounds and RAM being used up.
also, I'm happy to report that the memory leak issue seems to be fixed in the current Chrome canary. So we can expect it to just work (again) in Snap in a few weeks, and we don't actually have to come up with a workaround for it ourselves.
@Jens To work around the sound memory leak issue, I sampled one note for each of three octaves and scaled them. This seemed to work - here's the result:
Thanks for your assistance with this.